Looking for something to inspire your local choir or choral society? Our extensive range of choral repertoire includes works for Mixed Choir, Male Voice Choir, Female Voice Choir, Children’s & Youth Choirs, and Senior’s Choir, singing a Capella, with piano accompaniment, and with various other ensembles up to full orchestra.
Choral singing began to take form in the 9th & 10th Centuries, with the unison Gregorian Chant or Plain Chant. From the early Renaissance period, through composers like Palestrina , di Lasso and William Byrd true polyphonic choral music blossomed, and crescendo-ed through to a wonderful climax with Thomas Tallis’ Spem in alium for 40 parts, divided into 8 choirs.
As the form developed through the Renaissance into the Baroque period, composers such as Bach, Telemann and Händel gave the choir more and more autonomy, and through early operas and oratorios, married solo voices, choirs and orchestras together, to create these new musical forms, and inspired audiences with combinations of colours and sounds they had never before experienced.
Although there were many operas and oratorios written in the Classical period, sacred music also took a prominent role in shaping the development of choral music. While the chorus became a very useful tool on stage, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven composed many Masses, Requiems, Te Deums and Anthems to help brighten the world of church music, and uplift the hearts and souls of the congregation.
As opera continued to expand and stretch dramatic boundaries, choral music of the Romantic period was characterised by choral motets and anthems, and the oratorio grew into an even more varied and contrasting form. The oratorios Elijah and Paul are particularly noteworthy, since despite using Sacred themes, through the various musical facets at Mendelssohn’s disposal, they began to take on a much more operatic narrative. This can also be seen in the Requiems of Brahms and Verdi, where the choir itself, along with the orchestra, lead the dramatic storytelling.
Through the 20th Century, composers such as Ralf Vaughan Williams, Anton Webern, Arnold Schönberg, Benjamin Britten and Edward Elgar composed extensively for varying choral forces. Through these composers and many others, we begin to see choirs being tested and stretched, both technically and dramatically, and being pushed out of their comfort zone in order to inspire, shock and entice the audience. Works like Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius and Schönberg’s Friede auf Erden made a huge impact on the choral landscape.
In the modern era, new choral genres such as Gospel Choir, Pop Ensembles and Jazz & Swing emerged. Composers like John Rutter, Karl Jenkins, Bob Chilcott and Andrew Lloyd Webber have become very popular.
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATBB), Chamber ensemble
Score
Item no.: 1043348
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1073655
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1041012
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1039348
for: Soloist (alto), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1016221
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 997417
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 938701
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Score
Item no.: 938470
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 921631
for: 5 voices (SSMezAA) [women's choir] a cappella
Score
Item no.: 920918
for: Mixed choir (SAB), organ
Score
Item no.: 919869
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 942275
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 940424
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 930871
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 848623
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1202189
for: School class
Book, CD
Item no.: 847404
Klavierauzug zu vier Händen
Repertoire Explorer
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), piano 4 hands
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1344143
TVWV 1:1316
Kantate zum Sonntag Estomihi
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1043171
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 283449
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 367450
Spaur Mass
Urtext Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 236850
for: Mixed choir (ATT) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 309675
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 635773
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 138770
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 488615
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Piano reduction
Item no.: 325660
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 839402
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 839924
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 839880
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 837947
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 774387
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 774296
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 192411
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1353474
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1353464
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 834486
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1168868
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168743
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168712
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168435
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168915
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168912
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1168829
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168808
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168774
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168732
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1168682
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